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单词 unostentatious
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Definition of unostentatious in English:

unostentatious

adjective ˌʌnɒstɛnˈteɪʃəsˌənˌɑstənˈteɪʃəs
  • Not ostentatious.

    he was generous in a quiet, unostentatious way
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Secondly, I'm middle class, and living next to such unostentatious but quietly evident wealth is guaranteed to press all those buttons marked ‘grasping middle class insecurity’ in my psyche.
    • His unostentatious manner and his sense of humour endeared him to those with whom he came in contact, and as a lecturer he was lively and interesting.
    • Caroline Quentin is unostentatious but very convincing as the central character Maggie Mee.
    • Pope John Paul II's simple coffin of blond cypress wood, with its only decoration a cross and the letter M for Mary, symbolised his unostentatious lifestyle.
    • More than 4500 paying customers turned up the other day for a friendly involving non-league Sutton United, a quiet, unostentatious operation who play in the leafy environs of south London's stockbroker belt.
    • Lambert, a focused, unostentatious man who created such reality formats as Faking It and Shipwrecked, does not seem too bothered by his critics.
    • He will be sadly missed because he was a very genuine person who helped with charitable causes in an unostentatious way.
    • What is required is a steady, unostentatious stoicism, made up out of absolute, cold hatred and contempt for the aggressors, and complete determination that their defeat will be utter and shameful.
    • It's an understated, totally assured, and unostentatious style.
    • Our president had a rhinestone-covered 20 gallon cowboy hat with an airhorn and flashing strobe, and he seemed far less virtuous than my neighbor, with her simple and unostentatious cap.
    • The lyrics are unostentatious and the imagery is stark - the personal opens up into the universal thanks to Bickford's suggestive, elliptical couplets.
    • There is not even any need to put on your best bib and tucker, because the restaurant itself is a surprisingly unostentatious venue that specialises in simplicity.
    • Chopin has fallen through dissonance into the abyss - only to curve upward in the third Prelude to a world of unostentatious grace.
    • Also immaculately turned out in civilian threads, he disclosed to me his large wardrobe of expensive but unostentatious clothes, all of which have been imported from the best tailors in London.
    • Public tours reveal the unostentatious shipboard lifestyle of the Royals on voyages out to the British Empire and up to Scotland each summer.
    • Oslo is unostentatious, a cosmopolitan city that does not have skyscrapers, spaghetti flyovers, screeching cars, multi level metros of monolithic malls.
    • Now, for some reason, I've gone off it, but the glasses remain beautiful - simple and plain, unostentatious, solid and geometric.
    • Even the synthetic serving - man, sitting at the table dressed in an unostentatious suit, applauded with gusto.
    • Outwardly quiet and unostentatious, he was a deeply thoughtful man who shared his father's fascination with the complex iconography of ecclesiastical architecture and trappings.
    • This is acting of the purest and most unostentatious kind, unadorned by self-pity or visible virtuosity.
    Synonyms
    plain, unadorned, undecorated, unembellished, unornamented, without ornament, without ornamentation, unelaborate, unpretentious, unfussy, no-nonsense, basic, modest, unsophisticated, penny plain, without frills, honest, homely, homespun, everyday, workaday

Derivatives

  • unostentatiously

  • adverb ˌʌnɒstɛnˈteɪʃəsliˌənˌɑst(ə)nˈteɪʃəsli
    • On other occasions - the encounters of the Giant and his mother spring to mind - the simplicity is both very effective and unostentatiously moving.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Not to speak of the unostentatiously low-key, delimiting, and cool-filtered cinematography by Leigh's usual cameraman, Dick Pope.
      • ‘You know that Barry will be unostentatiously successful in anything he's involved in,’ said one business source.
      • All this work - hard work: far too hard for his own good - was done quietly and unostentatiously behind the scenes.
      • Ross McMullin's short biography works, like Watson himself, both unostentatiously and effectively to achieve results.
  • unostentatiousness

  • nounˌʌnɒstɛnˈteɪʃəsnəs
    • Mr. Harter gave ever with discrimination, but he also gave with a degree of unostentatiousness amounting almost to secrecy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Most heart-warming of the tributes speak of his unfailing courtesy and kindness, his unostentatiousness without being theatrically ` poor ’, his lifelong respect for the Legislative Assembly and its rules and conventions.
      • The homeliness and unostentatiousness of the middle class American were captivating.
      • But the poetry's simplicity and unostentatiousness attract the heart like a God-given beauty: its natural excellence does the work of thousands of adornments.
      • And yet, reading her obituary, I was surprised to find myself feeling that hers was a life lived with integrity and unostentatiousness.
 
 

Definition of unostentatious in US English:

unostentatious

adjectiveˌənˌästənˈtāSHəsˌənˌɑstənˈteɪʃəs
  • Not ostentatious.

    he was generous in a quiet, unostentatious way
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Chopin has fallen through dissonance into the abyss - only to curve upward in the third Prelude to a world of unostentatious grace.
    • Lambert, a focused, unostentatious man who created such reality formats as Faking It and Shipwrecked, does not seem too bothered by his critics.
    • Caroline Quentin is unostentatious but very convincing as the central character Maggie Mee.
    • Even the synthetic serving - man, sitting at the table dressed in an unostentatious suit, applauded with gusto.
    • There is not even any need to put on your best bib and tucker, because the restaurant itself is a surprisingly unostentatious venue that specialises in simplicity.
    • The lyrics are unostentatious and the imagery is stark - the personal opens up into the universal thanks to Bickford's suggestive, elliptical couplets.
    • What is required is a steady, unostentatious stoicism, made up out of absolute, cold hatred and contempt for the aggressors, and complete determination that their defeat will be utter and shameful.
    • Secondly, I'm middle class, and living next to such unostentatious but quietly evident wealth is guaranteed to press all those buttons marked ‘grasping middle class insecurity’ in my psyche.
    • He will be sadly missed because he was a very genuine person who helped with charitable causes in an unostentatious way.
    • It's an understated, totally assured, and unostentatious style.
    • Also immaculately turned out in civilian threads, he disclosed to me his large wardrobe of expensive but unostentatious clothes, all of which have been imported from the best tailors in London.
    • Now, for some reason, I've gone off it, but the glasses remain beautiful - simple and plain, unostentatious, solid and geometric.
    • This is acting of the purest and most unostentatious kind, unadorned by self-pity or visible virtuosity.
    • More than 4500 paying customers turned up the other day for a friendly involving non-league Sutton United, a quiet, unostentatious operation who play in the leafy environs of south London's stockbroker belt.
    • Outwardly quiet and unostentatious, he was a deeply thoughtful man who shared his father's fascination with the complex iconography of ecclesiastical architecture and trappings.
    • Our president had a rhinestone-covered 20 gallon cowboy hat with an airhorn and flashing strobe, and he seemed far less virtuous than my neighbor, with her simple and unostentatious cap.
    • Pope John Paul II's simple coffin of blond cypress wood, with its only decoration a cross and the letter M for Mary, symbolised his unostentatious lifestyle.
    • His unostentatious manner and his sense of humour endeared him to those with whom he came in contact, and as a lecturer he was lively and interesting.
    • Public tours reveal the unostentatious shipboard lifestyle of the Royals on voyages out to the British Empire and up to Scotland each summer.
    • Oslo is unostentatious, a cosmopolitan city that does not have skyscrapers, spaghetti flyovers, screeching cars, multi level metros of monolithic malls.
    Synonyms
    plain, unadorned, undecorated, unembellished, unornamented, without ornament, without ornamentation, unelaborate, unpretentious, unfussy, no-nonsense, basic, modest, unsophisticated, penny plain, without frills, honest, homely, homespun, everyday, workaday
 
 
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